Tag Archives: app

Yahoo Finance gets Androided

Yahoo Finance announced today that they’ve launched an Android app.
From the announcement:
With Yahoo! Finance for Android, some of the great features customers get include:

Real-time quotes from BATS Exchange
Customizable stock watch list
Access to Yahoo! Finance portfolios
Company stats and news
Tech Ticker videos

Users outside the U.S. will still have to wait a bit to get access to the [...]

The Atlantic on WSJ iPad app: It’s working

Interesting analysis on The Atlantic today regarding the WSJ’s paid content experiment on the iPad.
Let’s remember (from the article):

Apple sold about 500,000 iPad units in its first week
3200 WSJ iPad apps sold so far at $17.29/mo (or bundled together with other editions)
30,000 current WSJ subs trialing a free version of the app — so room for [...]

There’s an App for That: Mobile is the Next Frontier for Brand Engagement

Source Mobile phones are rapidly emulating the capabilities of desktop and notebook PCs, serving as one of the three screens of the Golden Triangle that captures a bulk of our attention and interaction. As the social web evolves, attention is shifting away from destinations and migrating towards packaging and engendering micro experiences. These self-contained environments are delivered [...]

These are a Few of My Favorite Tweets

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I believe that part of the allure of the social web is the ability to not only publish content, but to also recognize the contributions of others. Twitter is one such forum where the public art of recognition and reciprocity is spoken through both actions and words and are usually done so through @’s, [...]